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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (8006)	8/2/2009 3:23:03 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 42652

And it's still about half our price, covers everyone, has a huge favorable rating, is effective, and is totally without hassle. I have good friends from France who love their system. France, like the US, is dealing with out of control costs and is unsustainable without massive taxation. 65% of French citizens are satisfied with their health care. While the US spends 16% of GDP, the French spend 11% -- that's not "half" as you suggest. And we get a lot for the additional five percentage points. The French have had to massively increase taxes to deal with their health care problems. The French are spending less today but they get less for their money. But significantly, the French have a big problem that is not that worse than the US situation -- while the very poor and the rich are in good shape, the lower middle class cannot get adequate health care in France. The result is that you have a large number of people who are doing without adequate care. The French system may be a reasonable alternative to the US, system, but it isn't as good, and if the US passes any of the current legislation the French system will suffer as a result.